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Feds find elaborate drug smuggling tunnel between Tijuana and San Diego, complete with working rail cars, lighting, and wooden floors. It’s the largest pot bust since . . . uh . . . last year, when they found 45 tons in a different tunnel.

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on Thursday, December 1st, 2011 at 12:15 pm by Radley Balko
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The fact that the smugglers keep building these tunnels, and that the have evolved into such an elaborate system, is proof that the tunnels make lots of money. From the smugglers’ point of view, they are a good investment. If they did not make money, nobody would build more of them. Which proves that efforts to stop smuggling are falling further and further behind. No matter how hard they work, the cops can’t rescind the laws of economics.

How many more stories, exactly like this one, must we sit through before somebody, anybody in the media asks (at the obligatory “victory” press conference) “If you find a bigger and bigger tunnel each time, aren’t you really losing? How much more money, exactly, do you need for “victory”? How many more lives? How many more Labrador Retrievers?

And the big questions nobody in the media ever asks:

Is ANY of this working? Why are we doing this if it is not working? Who, besides the drug barons and the drug warriors, is benefitting from the expensive, violent, counterproductive, endless War on Drugs?

If nobody benefits (except dirty cops & bad guys), why are we forced to pay for it? Who uses force to make us pay for all this mess?

The “Feds” like to set up a patsy so they can parade around the next subway bomber or Christmas tree bomber they “caught.” I’m wondering if they bought the Home Depot gift cards the druggies used to build the tunnel.

Awesome! So… 35 tons of the estimated 20,000 tons of pot smuggled into the US was stopped! Why, that might show up as a fraction of a percent drop in availability for an hour or so! Go feds!

It probably costs smugglers 1/10 to cost to build a tunnel as it does these clowns to find it. And of course, any individual tunnel will likely have a very profitable lifespan when it’s in use prior to being shut down.

It probably takes like… a day to activate a NEW tunnel once a current one is shut down. You KNOW they have more tunnels either under construction or complete and ready to use at any time.

Hey FEDS! Just give up already! You might as well be trying to stop the rain.

I have an honest to goodness GOLD MINE that I cant afford to get cleaned out, in order to start mining the 80 MILLION in gold the oldtimers left behind. I think I’ll tell the feds that theres a cartel tunnel running under it…should be in business in no time. Idiots.